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Clavavisage posted:Deckard's Dream kit If I had the cash, I would absolutely get one, lol. Maybe some day in the not-too-distant future, but there's no way I can swing it right now.
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MockingQuantum posted:I already have an etherwave, otherwise I would. one theremin is enough, one might even argue it's one theremin too many Well then what's left? You're done. You win. I kid, of course. Honestly, most any DIY kit is a good place to start. Find something that looks like something you need, find a kit, build it.
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Maybe make a pedal that you need Or an amp/cab Idk A eurorack case?
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A pedal would be a good place to start. Deckard's Dream is my white whale but I think my spouse would kill me and I lack the confidence.
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toadee posted:Heh, no, the Korg PS series are every key polyphonic. The PS-3200 has 96 VCOs for it's 48 keys. Aphex Twin pretty famously used a pair of PS-3300s on the Syro album (the 3300 has 3 VCOs per key instead of the 2 on the 3200). 1k is insane for a 3200 so I assume it was quite broken? I think a restored PS-3300 goes for north of $50k last I looked. This synth sounds wild, which tracks was it on? Definitely gonna YouTube some demos after work. Anyone getting any synth stuff for Chrissy? Since the modules I wanted are out of stock (Cold mac and lxd) I'm thinking about preordering the kastle drum, or maybe just getting an sq-1.
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captainOrbital posted:Orbital is the band that I can listen to to always make me feel like I could never make music. You might be thinking of the x0xb0x, not sure who sells them anymore but it used to be Adafruit.
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MockingQuantum posted:kind of a tangent, but I'm looking for a DIY project to kind of get back into electronics (and because I find soldering a bunch of crap to be kind of meditative/relaxing) and some sort of DIY synth seems like the obvious choice to me. Do you have any projects you'd recommend for someone who has no problem soldering but only a loose understanding of electronics? I haven't looked at MFOS in ages, is that still the go-to resource for this sort of thing, since the founder died? Synthrotek https://store.synthrotek.com/Kits has a wide variety of kits and some of them are modular or can be made semi with an enclosure and 9 volt. Components come with the kits so it's a little hand holdey but there are some fun things to build. There is probably some way the owner is problematic so let your conscience be your guide.
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Just saw this vid, a sweet doubling of a sub 37 and a vst piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x15murjAK7k
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Synthrotek https://store.synthrotek.com/Kits has a wide variety of kits and some of them are modular or can be made semi with an enclosure and 9 volt. Components come with the kits so it's a little hand holdey but there are some fun things to build. There is probably some way the owner is problematic so let your conscience be your guide. Yeah I'm aware of the company, but there's no "probably" about it, Harmon's a piece of trash.
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Tayter Swift posted:Going back to Eno and discussion of ambient music, we've lost Harold Budd to COVID. drat, that sucks, Harold Budd was great.
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MockingQuantum posted:Yeah I'm aware of the company, but there's no "probably" about it, Harmon's a piece of trash. sorry, don't want to look for the original post to quote, but have you tried circuit bending? I wasn't expecting it, but, like, speak and maths are more reasonable in price than I was expecting. any of the late 80's casios will do cool poo poo once you start jumpering things to the roms (any of the ones with sound effects buttons like forest of ocean or whatever). if you are looking to spend more and don't mind a dead gay modular format, blacet kits are great to build. between the design and the documentation, you'll have a much better understanding of how poo poo works after building one. synthcube got the rights to john blacets stuff, but with covid (probably mostly parts shortages) they've been kinda slow at turning them around. they had vco boards, frames and power supplies in stock last I checked. that's not a terrible start and blacet vcos are p good. I think paia's still around. you can put together a functional 1 voice system for +/- $500. again, frac, but that's really o.k. because frac is and was a builders format.
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http://www.oakleysound.com/ has some great projects. Mostly the best modular format but there’s some standalone boxes and eurorack too.
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I had decent fun building the PAiA drum tone board but I still can't get it to trigger reliably.
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My tape and microsound music machine came today but the xoh is only giving me one channel, I opened it up and uh
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ouch that sucks man   finally got all my synth/rack stuff in an efficient setup + tree for santa santa do not steal my stuff 
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Looks like a fun as hell set up man! What's in the rack??
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Synthrotek https://store.synthrotek.com/Kits has a wide variety of kits and some of them are modular or can be made semi with an enclosure and 9 volt. Components come with the kits so it's a little hand holdey but there are some fun things to build. There is probably some way the owner is problematic so let your conscience be your guide. I really like that West Coast Noise System but yeah, I'm not giving Steve Harmon my money.
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field balm posted:Looks like a fun as hell set up man! What's in the rack?? thanks! top to bottom lexicon mx400xl effects (mostly just use for reverb/delay), focusrite 18i20, presonus cl44 compressor, tech 21 rbi bass preamp, a patch bay, a shelf holding a radial x-amp (to reamp)/td-3/korg kp3+, and a power strip. so like one of the main ideas i plan on playing with is sending all sorts of sounds into the kp3+ and to reamp that for tube saturation/distortion
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field balm posted:This synth sounds wild, which tracks was it on? Definitely gonna YouTube some demos after work. The full list and by track breakdown is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/2fkavm/full_gear_list_used_on_new_aphex_twin_album/ On minipops, xmasevet10, and produk 29, he used actually 3 (fuckin lol) PS3300's, and on s950tx16wasr10 he used a PS3200. It's also possible that the 3x PS3300 were controlled via a single interface in some way. He's published info before on contracting out extensive custom MIDI/CV solutions (most notably realtime tone card programmers for the GX-1). Aphex also sold a PS-3300 via this British auction house. It was damaged and unworking (brittle edge connectors needed replacing), and went for about 20k GBP in 2016: http://www.spheremusic.com/Bargaindtl.asp?Item=16241 That auction also notes it had a Kenton MIDI refit installed, so likely all the ones on the album were similar. There's actually a picture of Aphex with the trio he used on Syro: 
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toadee posted:PS-3300 looked this up, was treated to wiring porn 
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I have been listening to Selected Ambient works while at my job, in an office outloud where other people are sitting listening to it. Normal non synth people seem to respond well, at least not scared off by it. I hear lots of oldschool drum machines in the mix. What is the controller on the floor, so I can buy one just like it ?
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uh...I think it's just a regular whippet with a cord running under it. the little keyboard is a minilouge or a monolouge and yes, you should absolutely get one. I don't know what's against the wall behind the modular
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Cheese Thief posted:I have been listening to Selected Ambient works while at my job, in an office outloud where other people are sitting listening to it. Normal non synth people seem to respond well, at least not scared off by it. I hear lots of oldschool drum machines in the mix. I think it's a dog e: fb
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu80_BttoWE&t=78s The Ensoniq rackmount sounds drat good to me.
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Aphex Twin did some microtonal patches in the monologue it ships with so it was probably a promo phot for it.
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In case you want a card game that makes you patch your modular synth in new ways: https://shop.modular8.com/products/patch-the-card-game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLi6ZG3MKJU
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Been playing with the FM megadrive all night. Pretty much using the gma for a sequencer/arp right now while controlling the megadrive. It's just, I like how somebody explained it: A tree that you don't want to shake. It's so fragile that if you change the frequencies for a second and change it back you can lose some of the overtones. It's cool on the surface, but going to need to dig deeper to because idk what anything mean. I found attack drone and release, but I don't know what sl and sr mean. I think the MORE hardware you add into the equation the more complicated everything becomes. So just keeping gear to a minimum right now. You have to run the megadrive through something, I'm using the digitone, which adds effects, chorus reverb delay, but most importantly a volume boost. It's way to quiet on it's own.
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https://twitch.tv/videos/834510412?t=38s late night jam testing the setup, drags on a bit so like 30 sec and you get the gist Cheese Thief posted:Been playing with the FM megadrive all night. Pretty much using the gma for a sequencer/arp right now while controlling the megadrive. It's just, I like how somebody explained it: A tree that you don't want to shake. It's so fragile that if you change the frequencies for a second and change it back you can lose some of the overtones. It's cool on the surface, but going to need to dig deeper to because idk what anything mean. I found attack drone and release, but I don't know what sl and sr mean. I think the MORE hardware you add into the equation the more complicated everything becomes. So just keeping gear to a minimum right now. You have to run the megadrive through something, I'm using the digitone, which adds effects, chorus reverb delay, but most importantly a volume boost. It's way to quiet on it's own. i feel like that about fm in general, find a sound and bail before hours feel like minutes Pillow Face fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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Cheese Thief posted:Been playing with the FM megadrive all night. Pretty much using the gma for a sequencer/arp right now while controlling the megadrive. It's just, I like how somebody explained it: A tree that you don't want to shake. It's so fragile that if you change the frequencies for a second and change it back you can lose some of the overtones. It's cool on the surface, but going to need to dig deeper to because idk what anything mean. I found attack drone and release, but I don't know what sl and sr mean. I think the MORE hardware you add into the equation the more complicated everything becomes. So just keeping gear to a minimum right now. You have to run the megadrive through something, I'm using the digitone, which adds effects, chorus reverb delay, but most importantly a volume boost. It's way to quiet on it's own. SL and SR are sustain level and sustain rate, respectively. The 2612 has a standard four stage ADSR envelope like a lot of synths, but it's a bit of an oddball when it comes to sustain. Basically AR is your attack rate, DR is your decay rate, SL is your sustain level, which is the initial sustain level reached at the end of the decay time, and sustain rate is how quickly the level drops from that initial SL to nothing. It won't sustain indefinitely as long as you have a key depressed like with most synth amp envelopes (unless that's different in the MegaFM), the level will slowly decrease to nothing unless the key is released, in which case the level will drop at the release rate (RR).
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https://soundcloud.com/natively/one-bar-many-times recorded a jam for once. this is the kind of music I make for myself after work, usually with some weed and a beer lol. just zone out and play techno songs
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A MIRACLE posted:https://soundcloud.com/natively/one-bar-many-times recorded a jam for once. this is the kind of music I make for myself after work, usually with some weed and a beer lol. just zone out and play techno songs i dig it i was testing some stuff out and one thing led to another after a few hours i think i have a song draft, it's just scratch vocals, maybe i'll record on a better mic later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAEAmhZySPw
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A MIRACLE posted:https://soundcloud.com/natively/one-bar-many-times recorded a jam for once. this is the kind of music I make for myself after work, usually with some weed and a beer lol. just zone out and play techno songs I do this, too... it's a fun way to destress after work. I generally name the resulting tracks after whatever I'm doing or thinking about while I'm working on them. Since for me, "after work" is usually around 10pm, this means that I have to keep things quiet, so I mostly work with softsynths in Reaper. I got a Beatstep Pro a while ago, and I've been using it to make sequences and drum patterns. The result is stuff like https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/wanna-pet-that-dog im_sorry fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zysVV3Hxp2U&t=110s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGN-Qq-SObU I am considering this very expensive controller for the DX7. It's a huge hardware totally ridiculous mechanism to have hands on control for the DX7. So impractical and not worth it but 
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https://youtu.be/DpjZKmg1xjw ...speaking of things that can apparently load DX7 patches pls don’t give me opsix gas, Nick trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Cheese Thief posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zysVV3Hxp2U&t=110s you could get a MacBook Air, a DAW, some MIDI controllers, and a bajillion DX7 apps and plugins for one of those. I can 100% get behind buying a DX7 because you love it and want to physically have one in your home/studio, but spending $1500 on a breakout box for it is literally the definition of throwing good money after bad.
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Ok Comboomer posted:you could get a MacBook Air, a DAW, some MIDI controllers, and a bajillion DX7 apps and plugins for one of those. ok you are right, it makes a lot of sense to think about how many things $1,500 can buy! hah. it's fun to entertain crazy ideas for about an hour before realizing yea, lets not. It's even more fun to follow through, but in this situation $1,500 is not fun to blow.
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Also, since I've been doing a lot of my time with designing sounds using FM. I was looking for a way to have hands on control to make DX7 patches. I could load the patches to my own hardware because 32 onboard, and 32 expandable from memory card.  Maybe this to control the software, and connect to DX7 Manager, which I've heard is powerful. Might be fun
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Cheese Thief posted:ok you are right, it makes a lot of sense to think about how many things $1,500 can buy! hah. it's fun to entertain crazy ideas for about an hour before realizing yea, lets not. It's even more fun to follow through, but in this situation $1,500 is not fun to blow. If the excuse is “because I wanna play it live and I want a tactile instrument that isn’t a PC” then Korg literally just made a solution for you and it’s “only” $600 by comparison. At least half of its inspiration sheet seems to be “people who fantasize about touring + performing live and on the fly with a DX7” Also, I’m like 90% certain that there are freely available hacks and firmware packs for certain Behringer knob controllers that will make them work with stuff like the DX7, if you want a project. The controllers in question are like <$200 too. People turn them into synth controllers and sequencers and poo poo. Edit: Oh hey you beat me to it. Good on you.
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